Would you believe me if I told you that I've never played a Zelda game in my life? It saddens me, because I know that I would love the Zelda series, but I've never really owned any of Nintendo's consoles.

I watched End of The Century - The Story of The Ramones last night. I learned quite a lot about The Ramones that I never knew before. It's a shame when you reach the end and then remember that Joey, Johnny and Dee Dee are dead now.

What I found even more saddening was when they said that Joey really expected to beat cancer.

I always wonder what things would be like if a lot of the old punk "heros" were still alive today. People like Sid Vicious in particular. I think it would be great to see them on TV. I mean John Lydon was great when he was on "I'm A Celebrity - Get Me Out of Here", I'd love to have seen Sid do something similar.

I never even knew this thread existed. Well, if someone is willing to make me a picture that suits my username I'll be happy. My only request is that it is of a cartoon style, which bright colours.

Thanks in advance to anyone who is willing to make me this picture. Please PM me when you have done.

I think it might be time for a change of sig for me, depending on what you lot can come up with.

I like my sigs to look clean and tidy. Nothing tacky. I don't have any special requests, I'll let you lot be creative.

Thanks in advance to anyone who makes an attempt for me. I also ask that you PM me when done.

I see no reasons as to why aliens couldn't exist. If it's possible on one planet, then I'm sure it might have happened on another one somewhere out there.

Although, I don't believe in any of the UFO sightings and such that people report.

Hold on a minute. If you couldn't click anything, how did you click the "post" button?

I've never had any problems with my teeth. You should be more careful.

Is this a baby tooth you've had removed, or one that isn't going to grow back?

At 11/23/09 10:58 AM, Armado wrote: you say your USB mouse? why don't use the normal mouse on your laptop?

Did you read the entire post? I don't think so.

Anyway, like already suggested just use Ctrl + S to save your work. If you are no longer in the window with the document you need saved use Alt + Tab to get there. I'm not sure what will be wrong with your mouse, but at least you can get your work saved.

At 11/23/09 06:08 AM, MrFinland wrote: And think about the thousands of cops that DON'T abuse their power.

Finally, some sense. There will always be people who abuse their authority, no matter what their profession is. This doesn't mean to say that the entire police force is out there to beat on the first person they find. It's strange how the police who give their lives to save people get a mention here and there before they are forgotten about.

I have a feeling that Modern Warfare 2 might steal the title. Despite my love for the Call of Duty games, more specifically the Modern Warfare games, I don't think MW2 deserves the title. It should go to something which has original ideas and is not just an enhanced version of a previous game.

I really don't know which game I hope will earn the "game of the year" title, but I hope it's something that deserves it.

At 11/22/09 03:04 PM, squidly wrote: Have Fun with your stupidity, you might never get to experience such fun as Attack of the 50ft Robot or other actually original games.

Well, Squidly, what games would you recommend we play instead?

At 11/21/09 07:20 PM, SilvaWolf wrote: If you can't start at Visual Basic (too confused?), you could look around for simple stuff. I personally started with actionscript (Flash) but then my trial expired. . .

Visual Basic is the language we were shown to use at school. If the Express Edition is anything like the old Working Edition that I used to use to work on my class project at home, then it doesn't come with a compiler, which was annoying, because whenever I wanted to use my programs it had to be done using the interpreter.

I've never bothered installing any games to my hard drive. My Xbox's hard drive is only 20GB, so I don't exactly want to be using up all the space with a couple of games.

I don't find the loading times on most games that bad anyway, so it's never really seemed to have any benefit for me. One game, however, that I do love that has pretty bad loading times is Oblivion. Installing it to my hard drive might speed thing up a little, but I doubt I'll ever get around to doing that.

At 11/21/09 10:28 AM, Callum123456 wrote: He's 14 of cause he's gonna try jumping in at the deep end.

I was the exact same at that age. I'm now 17 and in my first year of a Computer Science degree. I'm currently working on a game, funnily enough. It's nothing advanced. Just a text based adventure game that we have to program with Java. I'm having a few troubles getting it to work the way I want it to though.

I want to lean C++ myself at some point. I think we have an optional module in 3rd or 4th year that teaches computer games programming using C++. Right now I'm pretty sure I'll be taking that module, but with time, things change.

That has to be one of the most pointless things I have ever seen.

I have a can of Relentless pretty much every day. It's one of the few energy drinks that I think has a nice taste.

Origin is the only flavour that I drink. That's the one in the brown can for those who don't know.

At 11/21/09 04:59 PM, Archon68 wrote: It'd definitely give the XBox a little boost. Still a long way to go before it gets as good as the PS3, though.

I'm hoping that was sarcasm? Everyone is entitled to their opinion, but I just don't see how people can prefer the PS3 over the Xbox. I own both consoles (and the Wii as well) and would never pick the PS3 as my primary console in a million years. I just don't see how it can be preferred.

Yes, it has the free online, which is a perfectly logical argument as to why Xbox Live should be free. I just don't think the PSN would be worth paying for, whilst I'm more than happy to pay for XBL.

Everyones opinion os going to differ, but I just don't think PSN compares to XBL.

At 11/21/09 12:22 PM, DumbassDude wrote:

At 11/21/09 11:49 AM, Jawdyn wrote: I gave up resisting

You might like it, I actually tried getting into it, I forced myself to play it few 2 weeks and I just couldn't enjoy playing it, it bored the hell out of me. Far too slow for my tastes.

Exactly how I felt. Although for me, it also got to a stage where I'd done most of the quests that I could find and the new ones were just too hard. That put me off a little.

Also, whilst on the topic of WoW, I got an email a few days ago telling me that my password had been changed. I wasn't too bothered by this, but I thought I'd check it out anyway. Turns out it hadn't been changed, and the email was in fact a fishing attempt. The asked you to log in and verify you're password by visiting the link, which looked legit, but there were a few letters moved about in the URL. Luckily I used the official site to check my email, since I'm generally distrusting of links in emails.

Just watch out similar types of trickery.

I was objected to buying it for years and then I finally caved in and bought it. I never really played it for all that long, but my impressions of it were average. I was told that I would "become addicted" and never stop playing. What a load of crap that was. I was so "addicted" that I didn't even last a month on that game.

Don't get me wrong, it's not a bad game. I just don't think it's as good as people seem to make it out to be.

At 11/20/09 08:43 PM, lollipopers582 wrote: its good but i need one how to make games XD. thanks anway already seen it.

If you want to learn a language you really need to start with the basics. Jumping at the deep end and trying to make a game isn't really going to achieve anything. I get the feeling you are after some sort of tutorial that will let you mindlessly copy code and change a few sections in the hope of ending up with a game. Seriously, don't. You need to understand how the language works and what it can do before trying to make something with it.

At least, this is how I feel about things.

That there be treasure indeed.

I honestly don't mind paying the Xbox Live fee. I own both an Xbox 306 and a PlayStation3 and the only console I play is the 360. Sure, I might save £40 if I played the PS3 as my primary console, but the service as a whole just doesn't feel as good.

I certainly wouldn't complain is Microsoft were to drop, or even cut the costs of Xbox Live, but right now I'm quite happy to pay for quality.

Well, I believe my mum planned on buying Modern Warfare 2 and Borderlands together, since Tesco had an offer on. If you bought a top 20 game, they gave you Modern Warfare 2 for £25. Typically, when went to get the games the day after the offer ended.

I've been so tempted to buy this game now, but my brother get the PS3 copy of the game, so I get to play that every now and again.

Also,, I've been considering getting Assassins Creed 2 and Dragon Age. Didn't think I'd be buying these games, but they've sparked a little more interest than I had first imagined.

You need to list more specs than just the graphics card to determine whether you can play a game or not.

What is your processor speed and RAM size?

At 11/20/09 05:45 PM, KeithHybrid wrote: Ignore him. He's either a bad troll or a dumb kid.

TacoFreak: Age/Gender: 14, Male

Actually, he's all of the above.

At 11/20/09 05:19 PM, TacoFreak wrote: Imagine if Zelda was a girl. How different do you think the game would be?

Taco, you failed.

At 11/20/09 05:24 AM, dirtshake wrote: Again I'm extremely excited to have come across this group and I plan on staying.

I'm glad to hear it.

Still having bother with this damn game though. I've got until Thursday to get this thing working, and I think we are allowed to work with a partner. I have a friend who is really good at coding, so I think I'm going to have to ask him for some help. I can imagine he finished this project a good while ago.

At 11/19/09 02:10 PM, BananaBreadMuffin wrote: Surely you just need something like this:

public void takeObj(Item item){
if(room.hasItem(item){
room.remove(item);
inventory.add(item);
}else{
System.out.println("You do not see "+item.toString());
}
}

What I've been trying to do is almost identical to what you've just written. I think the problem I'm having quite possibly lies within the hasItem() method. I've made so many different attempts at this program over the last two day, so I'm getting a little confused now.

I think it's time for a fresh start.

Thanks for the help BBM.

I was really getting into my World of Zuul project yesterday. I spent quite a few hours working on it. Most of the work I done was paper based planning. I designed the map, which consists of 18 rooms and made a quick walkthrough on how I plan the game line to be.

I got some of the programming done as well. The map has all been programmed, as wall as which rooms a linked and so on. I've also set up an Item class to store items, and I now have certain items stored within certain rooms.

I'm having a few problems now. Firstly, I don't quite know how to get my "take" command working. All this does is pick up the item from the room (if there is one) and add it to the inventory.

Another problem I'm having is with the doors. I want some of them to be locked and only open if the player has the "key" in their inventory. There's a similar problem I face with the NPCs. There are only 2, but I want them to say certain things depending on what the user has done.

This is by far the biggest project I have worked on, so I knew I would run into problems. If anyone has advice on how I can solve my problems, I would be most grateful. I'm not looking for java code from you, more pseudocode.

The only game that I play on my PC (it's actually a MacBook Pro) is Team Fortress 2, and even then it's not all that often than I'm online.

I used to play a lot of PC games back when Windows 98 was in use, but I gradually started to stop for one reason or another around the time of XP. I was always a console gamer by choice, but I had a thing for the older PC games. More of my particular favourites was Gangsters: Organised Crime.